Pop punk is enjoying some nostalgic attention these days. Lists crop up here and there, delineating the gems of the genre. However, they all share one subtle flaw: A focus on the major label feeding frenzy that followed Green Day's seminal 1994 word Dookie. (It's on our survey of best punk albums in ... More >>
Monday, January 21 Baron von Luxxury, Yellow Alex, Yung Skeeter THE SATELLITE Electro-pop comes in splendiferous shapes and sizes. And Baron von Luxxury brings the wicked-wit version, in which DeBarge, ELO, Hall & Oates and other formerly uncool '80s soul stylists float through the disco in super-s ... More >>
Can you remember the first time you were uncool? Most people won't remember themselves like that. Age and nostalgia dull the peaks and canyons of the past, making them look from a distance like gentle, bountiful plains.When I first picked up a copy of Ben Is Dead in 1989, I knew I was violently a ... More >>
Off! Whisky a Go Go 5/8/12 See also: Off!'s Keith Morris Mouths Off, Before the Group's Show at the Whisky Tomorrow Better than... a keg party at Ian McKaye's house. Somewhere between a rock and roll history lesson and a lock-in at the Punk Rock Rec Center, Keith Morris and his supergroup Off! ... More >>
Courtsey of The Bowery PresentsOdd Future at CMJ By Chaz Kangas Last week buzzworthy bands saturated New York City, across all boroughs and genres. The College Music Journalism festival featured some of the best breaking music in the world, including many great new bands from Los Angeles. Th ... More >>
In the bad old days of the '80s and '90s - when the internet was only for nerds and the military - there were desperately few ways to discover subversive culture. Music magazines and newspapers weren't the most illuminating sources of information for anything beyond than the gentle fields of "alte ... More >>
Also, Hellride, Bonobo, New Kingdom and others
Also, The Dead Weather, New Pornographers, the Swell Season and others
